#comet 12P

[blasteffect]

Comet 12P

Potograph taken in Pons-Brooks on the evening of March 16th. The comet is still 151 million miles away and slowly getting closer. The comet is also slowly brightening but also getting lower in the sky after sunset making it more difficult to capture. It will continue to get closer to the Sun over the next few weeks and become more difficult to see.

There was only about 40 mins from the start of darkness after sunset to when the comet set in the northeast. The comet is now magnitude 5, technically making it visible to the naked eye under a very dark sky, but practically speaking you will need binoculars to see it.

Courtesy: Stars Over Bucks

[spacewonder19]

Intriguing Tail of Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks © Michael Jäger

[without-ado]

Comet Pons-Brooks l Arcan Serifoglu l Mar. 6 to 14, 2024

[quiltofstars]

Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks over a week in April 2024 // Thomas Rox

[hermistslaton]

What a greeting, is it not?

I'll see you, Phos.

[astronerdscorner]

Such a long journey

Every 71 years visits this comet called 12P Pons Brooks the inner solar system and passes the sun. At the moment he is close to the sun which leads to its Coma and tail.

I capture it with 51 frames each exposed for 30s.

[the-maddest-robot]

A photo of the comet 12P ponce-brook, taken from my bedroom window. In the middle ages, comets were regarded as omens of great change, generally bad ones. It's only after the discovery of their periodic return (during the 15's to 16's hundred) and later discovery of their nature (big balls of mostly ice and some rocks orbiting the sun) that comets stoped to be feared. Despite that, I still find them to be awe-inspiring.

For those interested, this comet is currently visible with a good pair of binoculars or a telescope if you look in the Andromeda constellation (more information on positions and visibility: https://theskylive.com/12p-info) I would have taken more pictures or a better one if the clouds had not been consistently thwarting any attempts at observation in the last week and a half.

[alascene]

Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks captured April 4th of this year

135mm Rokinon lens

Canon 90D EOS DSLR

[merelygifted]

ESA - ‘Mother of Dragons’ comet visible in the night sky

[xipteras]

Evening Symphony: Jupiter, Mercury, and the Comet 12P/Pons-Brook at Twilight. ☄️ Image by @xipteras

[kestarren]

~ 1. Comet Donati, 1858, over Paris, at the time of its greatest brilliance: October 5th. ~ 2. Head of Comet Donati, October 2 and 10, 1858. (First 2 images are engravings, in Bilderatlas der Sternenwelt / Stellar Atlas, by Edmund Weiss 1888.) ~ 3. and 4. Famous comets of the past, (from 1858 and before). Comet Donati is in the centre. In the 4th image: Each comet is named around the border, but for the label of the last, the 6-tailed one, the year is 1744, not 1741. For clarity, the names via ESA: "From left to right, the image shows the Great Comet of 1680 (official name: C/1680 V1), the Great Comet of 1811 (C/1811 F1), Comet Donati (C/1858 L1), Comet Halley (1P/Halley) and the six-tailed Great Comet of 1744 (C/1743 X1, mislabelled in the original image)." ~ 5. Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, 9 March '24. What's behind the brightest areas of the core is revealed in this image by Jan Erik Vallestad.

[michaelgabrill]

[spacewonder19]

Long Tail of Comet Pons-Brooks ©

[without-ado]

Opposing tails of Comet Pons-Brooks l NASA APOD

[quiltofstars]

Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks on March 17, 2024 // astrosymmetry

[cosmicfocus]

Pons-Brooks

Periodic Comet 12P Image exposure:11x 30sec=5½ minImage Size:Size: ° x °Image date:2024-05-29 Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks is currently still bright and visible in the Southern Hemisphere from about 5.30 pm and sets about 8.15 pm. That sounds like plenty of time to observe it, if you have a clear Western view. Unfortunately, a couple of over-sized neighbours trees are now destroying the half-decent…